The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1887-01-26
BRIC-A-BRAC.
Wien madam asks, How old am l ?
Guard carefully thy tongue:
And win her smiles as you reply, .
G.on slnull have asked, 'HOW yONng!-

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You should have asked, ''How young:
Brick layers-Chimncys.
The star ,routc-Heavenward,
Cheapest gas-The demagogue.
.Sot i windy a1fair-Meetiug g araft.
4 favoritc winter resort-Before the fire.
Ourlbcrty bell-The belle Of the kitchen.
70 increase the milk supply-Natcr the
COWS
Noah was not only a socialist, but an
artist.
4 COW is at her best when -four: TO eight
years old.
It's only literary bees that visit the arch
hives.
If i gas man were to write poetry, would
his meter be correct?
y most unsatisfactory piece Of sculpture
is the bust of & boiler.
The higher the ground intended for
grape planting the better.
No brass band can play as many airs as
drum major can put on.
4 roller skate is q nice skate, but an ice
skate is not roller skate.
The man who sows taffy seldom reaps
crop OF >ugarcanc
Sometimes the womdn who kneads bread
least needs it the most.
Cold is itself great contractor but any
body can contract a cold.
Tie skating rinks, like the popular pho
togcaher, have plenty of sitters.
Every miser should have a chest pro-
tccior.
Voice of the theatre going public-thc
tall bonnet must go.
Three ladies can keep secret when two
OF them are dead.
y politician is honcat when all other
means have failed.
There is sound reason for complaint
| against :. man who Sn0rcS in church.
The professor of swimming school is
very properly i doctor Of dive-in-ity.
\ ring around the moon is sign of rain,
and ring around the eye is q sign Of blow.
The prc,tiest ear doesn't always hold the
biggest diamond.
The mission that brokers are anxiously
/ S""!ilng-CGMmlSSlon.
We've had falling out, as the hair said
TO its bald natal spot.
Tie man who puts ashes on an icy side
8..,Ik makes for himself road to heaven.
4 yeai ;.nielt of Labor-The night be-
fore Christlnas.
Enquirer the Press Club is not a
composing stick.
Some men get all the polish they have
from the bootblack.
The iadgc of police court has business
reduced to fine point.
In bundlins up for cold walk consult
| the thermometer, not the mirror.
Some people are so smart that it takes
them all day 10 tell what fools they arc.
\ new bonnet is called THE Stork." !"
II is probably accompanied by long bill.
There is one branch of labor which must
always bc doncby hand-picking pockets.
Asa general thing the man is conccited
-. who wants to talk 1t the same time that
you 10.
4 young lacy always has "hans up
time when Sic undertakes to arrange her
| front hair.
In wha. w:.y does money resemble gun
powder: Ii is awsu!l;- hard to hold after
il begins to so off.
Tie chief characteristics of Brooklyn are
said by IN inhabitan:to be a big bridge
ard two popular churches.
There are sone men Who have so much
GENTS that they can't do anything but sit
arouul and think about it.
\ Kansas paper in review Of the last
year remarked that it was notable for the
Number OF weddings and other casualties.
One paiI o; r3hbers cost less than three
porous plasters and are :; great deal more
comfortable.
| \ man without money can run for Con-
grcss; but the man who has money is more
~; 70 get there.
The ordinary Mexican woman wears no
bonnet. 1t must be delightful to go to the
| theatre in Mexico.
The man who keeps time with his feet
while the band is playing is evidently fond
of soieful music.
One does not have to live b. the seaside
to see the ground swell Earthquake Sec
tiors are just as good.
What is filing our insane asylums?"
! sll.:::ic''ls 4 lecturer. The answer probably
Is: Crazy people.
Although the money market is tight,
even the most rigid prohibitionist would be
! glad 10 see ii take drop
Wien trotting horse dies, it is always
one day after his owner was offered fabu-
lou> price for him.
\ writer says: life is shorter than
| death, Any one can sec that four letters
in one, five in the ether.
Tight boots are said 10 cause the blood to
noun. to the face That's why society
girls are all the time blushing.
Six million Of dollars worth Of silver is
aSct; III this country every year for manu-
featuring and decorative purposes.
T&c Sal,on of Morocco has 900 wives.
Solomon only had iG0. But Solomon was
:. wise man. he knew when ne had enough.
Misfortune is sometimes ;hc making Of
! 9 man" Amen! If you can win Miss
Eort4ac heart and hand, she's the girl to
set you "p.
Invaids are now fed on baked milk.
The milk is put in { glass jar, covered with
paper or top, ard baked 10 hours in the
oven.
i poetcss says she goes to sleep "drapcd
in soft, h.,;uriouS gloom" Tastes differ.
We take our sleep in a cotton rode de
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